_wednesday.august.24th.2005_3:10pm
_all my previously released stepfiles are now up. Enjyo
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_sunday.october.9th.2005
_this year has a been a year for music. Lots of bands releasing the follow-up albums to just plain mind bogglingly amazing albums. Audioslave following up their self-titled album. System of a Down following up Toxicity. Coldplay following up Rush of Blood. nine inch nails following up fragile. Gorillaz following up Gorillaz. And they've all come out with some pretty good records. But none of them reached the same level as the albums they followed up. Maybe, maybe, Gorillaz Demon Days did, but the albums are so different, really at opposite ends of the spectrum as far as direction, that it almost doesn't count. I have a hard time trying to compare the two records. I really do. Anyways, all bands came out with albums, and none of them were able to match their previous work. Understandable though. Those were all just...great fucking albums. Though while I don't think any of them reached the previous albums hieghts, I wouldn't call any of them disapointments. However, this past week, the Bloodhound Gang, who I fucking love, released Hefty Fine. It was a disapointment. First real disapointment of the year for me. I think Jimmy Pop's love of HIM really had an effect on the quality of this album. The guy from HIM even does guest vocals on one of the songs. And opposed to having the HIM guy just do something funny and ridiculous and have him sing in some cleverly written song about dicks with turntablism and synthesizers, he just went and had him do the chorus on a HIM-esque song. That right there pretty much sums up my feelings. I always loved the BHG for the juvenile-yet-brilliant lyrics, and the truely genius blend of rock and rap they had. Those just aren't on this record. I really do hope that this isn't the new direction of the band and it's just Jimmy Pop letting Bam Margera have a bit too much input on what the BHG should be doing. In happier news, I picked up DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing..." on the same day. I hadn't heard a single song from it. I just recently got the UNKLE album, which DJ Shadow collaborated on, and is fucking awesome, and decided that I really did like it enough for me to spring for this album without hearing a damned thing from it. I was about 2 songs into it when I decided that it was fucking dope as piss.
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_october.9th_15th
_DJ Shadow_Building Steam With a Grain of Salt
_this is the kind of music you listen to...and you can't help but sit and say to yourself "I could never make something like that." Something so epic. So grand. Something you hear and everything just goes together. Yet so simple. Just the blend of things...the piano is so beautifully simple. The drumline. The spoken word samples. The choir singing. The guitar riff. The...thingy. And it's all sampling. To think that he just heard this stuff and went "Hum de hum this shit will go together nicely." Fucking mind boggling. It reminds me of the IIDX artists sampling masters AYA and sampling masters AYA. This is fucking "sampling masters" right here. I want to make music. If I ever do, I want to try sampling like this. In respect to people like DJ Shadow, and in an ode to smAYA and sm MEGA, I'll call myself sampling amateurs HOJO if I ever do.
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